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    The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve...
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    The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian...
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    The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition)...
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  • The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. The first tournament...
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    The World Rapid Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under rapid time controls. Prior to 2012...
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    master. He also competed in the under-12 section of the 2014 World Youth Chess Championships in Durban, South Africa, scoring 6/11. By January, he had crossed...
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    The World Blitz Chess Championship is a chess tournament held to determine the world champion in chess played under blitz time controls. Since 2012, FIDE...
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    The Women's World Chess Championship is a chess match played to determine the Women's World Chess Champion. It has been administered by FIDE since its...
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    The World Chess Championship 2021 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine...
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    division of the World Youth Chess Championships in 2008 at age eight and won the women's division of the Finnish Chess Championship in 2010 at age 10...
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    Polina Shuvalova (category World Junior Chess Champions)
    (in 2017, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the under-16 girls group) and bronze (in 2016, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the under-16...
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    French Chess Championship, and in 2009, won the World Junior Chess Championship and the Biel Grandmaster Tournament. He repeated as French Chess Champion...
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    in 2007, and the Under-18 World Youth Chess Championship in 2008. In 2018 he won the European Individual Chess Championship in Batumi with a score of...
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  • World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC) is an event held periodically since 1974 where computer chess engines compete against each other. The event is...
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    Aleksandra Goryachkina (category World Youth Chess Champions)
    under-14, and under-18 girls' divisions of the World Youth Chess Championship. She is also a two-time girls' World Junior Champion. At the age of 13, Goryachkina...
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    Sopiko Guramishvili (category World Youth Chess Champions)
    world among women. Guramishvili began playing chess at age five. She regularly qualified for and participated in the World Youth Chess Championships from...
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  • Malak Ismayil (category Azerbaijani female chess players)
    Sumqayit chess school student. She repeatedly represented Azerbaijan at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different...
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  • The World Team Chess Championship is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of 10 countries whose chess federations dominate...
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    Nihal Sarin (category Chess Grandmasters)
    part of the Indian team in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020. He won the U-18 World Youth Championship held online in rapid format in 2020. Nihal was...
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  • Mark Paragua (category Filipino chess players)
    playoff berth. Paragua took part in two World Youth Chess Championships: 15th World Youth Chess Championship (2001) where he tied for 17th-26th places...
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  • The World Senior Chess Championship is an annual chess tournament established in 1991 by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. Originally, the minimum age...
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    Meruert Kamalidenova (category Kazakhstani female chess players)
    August 2005) is a Kazakhstani chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (2023). World Youth Chess Championship winner (2019). Meruert Kamalidenova...
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    2020-06-24. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - WORLD YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2009 (14)". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24. "Chess-Results Server...
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    The European Individual Chess Championship is a chess tournament organised by the European Chess Union. It was established in 2000 and has since then taken...
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    Daniel Naroditsky (category World Youth Chess Champions)
    World Youth Chess Championship with 9½/11, tying with Illya Nyzhnyk but winning the gold medal on tiebreaks. At the 2010 U.S. Open Chess Championship...
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    Junior Champion, and a three-time World Youth Champion. Alice Lee started playing chess at age 6 in her school’s chess club, where her older brother was...
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  • World Junior Championships (also Youth World Championship as opposed to Senior World Championship) may refer to: Artistic gymnastics: Artistic Gymnastics...
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    Anna Rudolf (category Chess International Masters)
    They had success at a young age, both qualifying for the World Youth Chess Championships, where Rudolf finished in the top 10 of the under-12 girls'...
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    sections. In December 2013, Hakobyan won the U12 section of the World Youth Chess Championship. He remained undefeated throughout the event, finishing with...
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  • Top Chess Engine Championship, formerly known as Thoresen Chess Engines Competition (TCEC or nTCEC), is a computer chess tournament that has been run since...
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